Numbers 27:16-20

“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of humanity, appoint a man over the congregation,

who will go out and come in before them, and lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;

and have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and commission him in their sight.

And you shall put some of your authority on him, so that all the congregation of the sons of Israel will obey him.